Christian Cruelty: An Unfortunate RealityChurch Silence Promotes Violence: An Article Series From All-Creatures.org

Church silence promotes violence to humans, to animals, to our
environment, to our economy, to our education, to our finances, and to our health.
By: Mary T. and Frank L. Hoffman

Reply from Mary and Frank

Dear Michelle:

There are two things that bear on your comments; there is a false
teaching going around much of the right wing of Christianity that says that
by simply believing in Jesus Christ all of your past, present and future
sins are forgiven, so that it doesn't matter what you do.

The other is that most people are selfish, and don't care what happens to
the other person or animal, so long as it doesn't happen to them or their
family or pets.

Jesus Christ stood against these things, as did the latter prophets in
the Hebrew Bible.

The intent of this series is to wake up and
encourage the Church to greater works of love and compassion (John 14:12).
It is not to condemn the Church, in general, or any individual, any more than
Jesus condemned the woman caught in adultery. Jesus said to her, "...go
your way. From now on sin no more." (John 8:11) And this is our
message to the Church: Recognize our sins of the past and go forth seeking
to be perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect (Matthew 5:48), correcting the
sins of the past, for that is the only way we can truly show the world that we
love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, might, and mind, including the
whole of creation, which includes our neighbors whom we are to love as ourselves.

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